Guy Perrin - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1993: DEA (Master of Science in Astrophysics and Space Technology), University of Paris 7
  
• 1996: PhD (Master of Science in Astrophysics and Space Technology), University of Paris 7

• 1992 - 1993 DEA internship on the study of the β Pictoris disk (group of A. Vidal-Madjar and R. Ferlet)
  
• 1993 - 1996 PhD at the Paris Observatory: a fiber recombination unit for the IOTA interferometer (FLUOR). Application to the study of late-type stars (thesis supervisor: Jean-Marie Mariotti)
  
• 1997 - 1999 Shared activities at Paris Observatory and French Ministry of Defense as Military Engineer
• Activities at the DGA: Armaments Engineer then Senior Armaments Engineer responsible for optical propagation and signature activities in the Force Systems and Foresight Division
  
• Activities at the Paris Observatory:
  
  • Completion of FLUOR and study of late-type stars with the instrument
    
  • Participation in the design of VLTI instruments (AMBER, MIDI). Co-PI of the VLTI's MIDI mid-infrared instrument
    
• 1999 - present Assistant Astronomer then Astronomer (2007) at the Paris Observatory – LESIA
  
• 2011 - 2016 Vice-president of Paris Observatory
  
• 2017 - 2021 Deputy Director and Head of the Astronomy Division at CNRS/INSU
  
• 2022 - present Scientific Advisor for Astronomy and Space Research at the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space
  

• Discovery of the MOLsphere of Mira stars, detection of that of red supergiants, detection of the molecular torus of active galactic nuclei, interferometric imaging of evolved stars
  
• Participation in studies for the DARWIN mission
  
• Research on single-mode fibers for thermal infrared
  
• Research on high dynamic range imaging using pupil masking
  
• PI of the 'OHANA' project, recombination of Mauna Kea telescopes using optical fibers
  
• PI of the FIRST project, high dynamic range imaging using fiber pupil masking
  
• French Co-I of the GRAVITY project

• Lecturer and head of the option Instrumentation of the Professional Master's Degree "Tools and Systems for Astronomy and Space" at the Île-de-France Astronomy Doctoral School
  
• Astronomical Interferometry in the Research Master's Degree at the Île-de-France Astronomy Doctoral School
  
• Astronomical Interferometry at the École Supérieure d'Optique
  
• Astronomical Interferometry in the Master's Degree at the University of Porto
  
• Supervisor and co-supervisor of 10 PhDs (1 recruited from the CNRS)

• 213 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 13,700 citations (NASA-ADS)

• 1992 Research Prize of École polytechnique with Alain Lecavelier des Étangs-Levallois
  
• 2005 Young Researcher Award from the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SF2A)
  
• 2015 Del Duca Award from the Institut de France
  
• 2019 La Recherche Award, with his team
  
• 2019 Knight of the National Order of Merit
  
• 2020 Fizeau Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• 2022 Elected at the French Science Academy
  
• 2025 Medal of Honor of CNRS
  
• 2025 Officer of the National Order of Merit